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Place Description
Clubfoot Canal

about 2½ mi. long extending from the head of Clubfoot Creek to the head of Harlowe Creek, N Carteret County and N Craven County, affording a waterway from the Neuse River to Newport River. Planned 1797; completed about 1828.

Clubfoot Creek

rises near the Carteret-Craven county line and flows N into Neuse River. A canal connects the stream with Harlowe Creek in central Carteret County, affording a waterway from the Neuse River to Newport River. Appears on the Moseley map, 1733. The Indian name for the stream was Irisquoque.

Clum

community in SW Chowan County served by post office, 1897-1902.

Clun Seat

10,000-acre estate in SE Warren County between Great Fishing and Shocco Creeks. Granted to Edward Moseley in 1728, and after his death in 1749, sold by his sons to Joseph Montfort. Mentioned in local records as late as 1765. Probably named for the Clun River or the town of Clun in England.

Cluster

community in S Mecklenburg County served by post office, 1893-1903. Successor to Maxwell's Store, which see.

Clyde

town in central Haywood County. Inc. 1889. Named for a member of a firm of railroad construction engineers. Known previously as Lower Pigeon. Alt. 2,539.

Clyde Township

central Haywood County.

Coahoma

community in NE Lenoir County served by post office, 1888-1902.

Coakley

town in E Edgecombe County. Inc. 1903, but not now active in municipal affairs.

Coalglen

community in S Chatham County on Deep River. Known earlier as Farmville. Site of former Carolina Coal Mine, from which the name is derived.